Distribution: Occurring west of the Cascades crest along the coast in southwestern Washington; southwestern Washington to northern California.
Habitat: Coastal bluffs and rocks.
Flowers: March-April
Origin: Native
Growth Duration: Perennial
Conservation Status: Not of concern
Pollination: Bumblebees, bees
Slender, lax, herbaceous perennials, up to 1 dm. tall, with prominent brown-woolly tubers, the herbage with soft, glandular hairs.
Leaves mostly basal, the blades reniform-orbicular, 1-4 cm. wide, palmately veined and coarsely dentate; petioles well-developed, their bases expanding and overlapping; cauline leaves few and low on the stem, or none.
Inflorescence several-flowered, racemose, compact on naked peduncles, scarcely surpassing the leaves, the pedicels less than 1 cm. long; calyx divided nearly to the base, the 5 lobes long; corolla bell-shaped, 5-lobed, white with a yellow eye, 6-11 mm. long and wide; stamens 5; style 2-3 mm. long, 2-parted.
Capsule 2-celled, ovules numerous.
Publication: A Flora of California 3: 296. 1943.
PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Romanzoffia tracyi in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database.
WA Flora Checklist: Romanzoffia tracyi checklist entry.
OregonFlora: Romanzoffia tracyi information.
E-Flora BC: Romanzoffia tracyi atlas page.
CalPhotos: Romanzoffia tracyi photos.
USDA Plants: Romanzoffia tracyi information.
